It is a true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith - who happens to be the author's grandmother. At age six Lily helped her father break horses, then at age fifteen she left home to teach in a frontier town. Later as a wife and mother, Lily runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy - but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery (as is described in a post literary review, which also garnered the book five stars ★★★★★), Lily Casey Smith remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
